Bug#696165: Info received (Bug#696165: Acknowledgement (ITP: libdiffutils-java -- Java diff and patch library))
+++ Debian Bug Tracking System [2013-08-12 08:00 +0000]:
Further investigation found that this package had wrong/not plausible
licence claims as it said it was Apache2 whilst being clearly derived from
something that was never apache2 and the original author has not given
permission for any licence change.
The software is not uploadable to Debian without someone sorting out
the licence with upstream. The jrcs package from which it is derived
_does_ have acceptable licencing (although it has changed over its
lifetime, just to confuse matters).
The package which depended on diffutils has been changed to remove the
need for it, so I can forget about this whole mess.
If anyone is interested at some point I have all the details of the
licencing mess, and mostly-done packaging of both diffutls and jrcs
you could start from.
gah - what a waste of effort.
Wookey
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